Knowledge Base
INSIGHTS HUB
7 min
Sept 24, 2026
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What the NFL Knows About Concussion That Other Sports Don’t
No sports organization has invested more in understanding head injury than the National Football League. Driven by litigation, public pressure and genuine concern, the NFL has built the most…
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Editorial Team
8 min
Sept 10,2026
[17]
The Warm-Up: The Routine Every Team Uses and Few Actually Test
Few practices in elite sport are as universal as the warm-up. Yet for something so routine, it may also be one of the least routinely validated. Most protocols are inherited, adjusted by feel, and rarely tested against…
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EDITORIAL TEAM
6 min
Sept 3,2026
[16]
Hydration The Science Is Settled. The Practice Isn’t.
Hydration is one of the most mature areas in sports science. The core mechanisms are well understood, the major position statements have been stable for years, and the basic guidance is not seriously contested…
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Editorial Team
6 min
Aug 27, 2026
[15]
Altitude Camps: Live High, Train High, or Just Spend High?
Few training methods carry the mystique of altitude. The image is powerful: athletes living and training on a mountain, their blood quietly adapting, returning to sea level transformed. Around that image sits a substantial industry, dedicated…
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Editorial Team
8 min
Sept 3,2026
[14]
Overtraining Syndrome: The Diagnosis Elite Sport Still Gets Wrong
Few terms in elite sport are used as loosely as “overtraining.” It is invoked to describe everything from a tired week to a career-threatening collapse in function, and that imprecision is not harmless.
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EDITORIAL TEAM
5 min
Aug 11,2026
[13]
The Case for Doing Less: When More Data Stops Improving Decisions
The default instinct in elite sport is acquisitive. A new sensor, a new platform, a new model, each promising a sharper edge. The logic feels unimpeachable: …
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Editorial Team
6 min
July 30,2026
[12]
The Evening Training Problem: When the Schedule Fights the Science
Elite competition is increasingly shaped by late-afternoon and evening broadcast windows, and many training schedules follow the same logic. The reasons are commercial and logistical: broadcast slots, crowd availability, the realities of…
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Editorial Team
6 min
July 28,2026
[11]
The Injury That Data Missed: Why More Monitoring Has Not Made Injuries More Predictable
Every performance department has a version of the same story. An athlete is monitored daily. Their GPS output sits within range, their wellness scores look…
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EDITORIAL TEAM
7 min
July 16,2026
[10]
The Hottest World Cup: How Teams Prepared for the Heat of 2026, and What Is Happening Now
Unlike most pieces in this series, this one is a live case study, written from inside the tournament: as we publis, the 2026 World Cup has…
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Editorial Team
6 min
July 6,2026
[9]
The Longevity Question: What Actually Keeps Elite Athletes at the Top for Longer
Across several major sports, the visible trend is toward longer careers at the top. Athletes are competing at elite level into their mid-thirties and beyond in…
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EDITORIAL TEAM
8 min
July 2,2026
[8]
AI Video and Immersive Training: What Gets Automated, and What Only Looks Like It
Two technologies usually get bundled together under the heading of the automated coach: generative AI applied to video and analysis, and immersive virtual reality …
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Editorial Team
6 min
June 29,2026
[7]
Brain and Mind in Elite Sport: One Label, Two Very Different Evidence Bases
The cognitive layer of performance is usually sold as a single category: the brain as the last frontier, the place where the next competitive edge will be found. It is a tidy story, and it…
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Editorial Team
7 min
May 25,2026
[6]
FemTech in Elite Sport: Correcting a Data Gap Without Overcorrecting Into Hype
For most of the modern history of sports science, the athlete in the study was a man. Load models, recovery protocols…
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EDITORIAL TEAM
8 min
June 22,2026
[5]
Recovery and Sleep Tech in Elite Sport: Sorting the Science from the Spa
For a long time, recovery in elite sport was treated as the absence of training rather than as a discipline in its own right. Athletes “rested.” Coaches managed loads. Sports scientists measured fatigue indirectly through…
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Editorial Team
5 min
June 18,2026
[4]
Computer Vision in Elite Sport: From Knowing Where a Player Is to Knowing How They Move
For most of the last decade, “tracking” in elite sport meant one thing: knowing where a player was.
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Editorial Team
10 min
June 15,2026
[3]
Wearables in Elite Sport: The Sensor War Is Over, the Interpretation War Has Just Begun
Exploring how elite basketball players optimize their kinetic chain for maximum explosive power.
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Editorial Team
12 min
June 9,2026
[2]
AI and Predictive Performance Analytics: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why the Best Tool in 2026 Is Still a Sceptical Human
If you had to pick the area where the gap between hype and substance…
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Editorial Team
10 min
May 22,2026
[1]
Seven things to look for in an elite athlete’s performance – and the hype to ignore
Elite sport has spent the last decade gathering data. The next two years will be defined by what teams finally do with it.
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